[HELP NEEDED] Website load speed is 16s

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SocialNed

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Hi guys,

I'm working on this Shopify store and the more I try to optimize it the slower my website gets.
I did an analysis on Google PageSpeed Insights and got a mobile score of 21 and desktop 61.
All my images are compressed, I have about 12 apps but all are very important, does anyone know what might be causing the slowness.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks a lot.
 
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www.gtmetrix.com and have a look. it'll tell you whats slowing it down.

p.s. after looking at waterfall, if its the very top one that slows it down, thats your hosts fault or the theme youre using is slowing it down.
test it by putting a basic theme on and doing the test again. if it stays high, host fault, if it drops, get a different theme.
 
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There seems to be issue with your images and browser caching.

Try to resize images and use cloudflare for caching.
 
Wow, thanks a lot guys! I am using Cloudflare for caching, just set it up a few hours ago, not sure if it is working yet. Images Should definitely be resized I think! I am using Shopify so I guess there host should be decent right? I am about to be running some ad campaigns on pinterest, instagram etc..
 
Make your images the exact size you're trying to use.

Let's say your putting in an image that is 500x500 and the picture your using is 2000x2000, just resize it down and it'll save a bunch of bandwidth/loading time.

There are plugins that do this for you if you don't like to resize in a photo editor. (I also believe you can resize in the media tools in WordPress anyways)

If you don't want to use a plugin and do everything manually, you can use this site to optimize the images AFTER you resize them - https://compressor.io/
 
install shortpixel plugin and pay for the image credits you need to use the cdn.
 
Thanks, everyone really useful help here! I'm resizing all the images, realized I had some that were 4k x 4k lol. I will report back here with the result! Cheers :)
 
Holy moly, 2M and 145 requests... don't think I've ever seen anything like this.
As others stated above, image optimisation and cloudflare should help somewhat.
 
Hey guys,

After optimizing the crap out of every photo on my site there is some improvement! However, google speed test is still showing terrible scores.
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Your optimization is fine except for the huge page size (which might be due to a lot of images - that's normal for shopping sites). You should look for some lazy loading plugin. If all your images aren't loaded at once, then your page size will be 1/4th of the original size. That should improve your loading speeds to a great extent.
 
Check server response time. If its a new site, go for 1gbps and at-least 16gb ram vps hosting else choose a right dedicated server. Also serve files using nginx for better performance.
 
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